The Flying Dutchman Owen Davies 06/02/2025Opera North has built a formidable reputation for creating original and provocative interpretations of opera classics, and their new take...
Death and the King’s Horseman Tom Rutter 06/02/2025First staged in 1976, Death and the King’s Horseman is a fictionalised retelling of events that took place in Nigeria...
Second Best Anna Levitt-Malik. 05/02/2025‘This isn’t the story of how I came second. It’s the story of someone putting me first.’ While the play...
My Mother’s Funeral: The Show Olivia Hurton 02/02/2025The cost-of-living crisis fills inches of newspaper columns but where is the discussion about the cost of dying? Last year,...
The Bowie Show Tim Hochstrasser 26/01/2025This was my first visit to the Golder’s Green Hippodrome, a hulking venue the size of the Coliseum, and originally...
Moby Dick Owen Davies 26/01/2025This production – part of the London International Mime Festival – is by the French-Norwegian theatre company, Plexus Polaire. To...
The Merchant of Venice Ben Reiss 24/01/2025Things you will be warned about before watching Theatre For A New Audience’s (TFANA) production of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant...
Not a Word Sofía Danailov Esteban 22/01/2025“Not a Word” is a striking portrait of what it is to be forgotten, to be alone, to be a...
Jenůfa Josi Steinfeld 21/01/2025This revival of Claus Guth’s 2021 production of Jenůfa is a triumph largely thanks to Czech conductor Jakub Hrůŝa. Making...
La Manékine Sofía Danailov Esteban 15/01/2025La Manékine is a gripping story where light intersects with darkness, and joy meets despair. Blending puppetry, storytelling, and a...
